- #1 Order: The New Dawn
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outer Space Workshop
Windows
Order: The New Dawn is a colony sim with space adventure. As a legendary captain from the United Stellar, build a base on the desert planet New Terra and face the perils of the Wastespace—how will you shape the destiny of the stars?
Why similar: Space Sim 19.9% ★, Colony Sim 19.5% ★, 4X 18.9% ★, Base Building 9.6%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #2 Spaceflight Factory
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kanapper
Windows
SpaceFlight Factory is an Automation and Base Building game with some survival game mechanics.You lead a small colony of human remnants. Help them to survive, expand and gather enough resources to leave Earth for their new home planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 15.9% ★, Space Sim 13.6% ★, 4X 12.3% ★, Base Building 8.7%, Automation 8.2%
- #3 Solargene
96% matchMostly Positive76% of 819 reviews2026
Dev: Alexander Semenov
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 34.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Take Command of a Space Corporation in the Sci-Fi Simulator Solargene! Manage personnel, design and develop colonies and orbital stations across the solar system! Mine resources, establish logistics, research cutting-edge technologies, trade, and complete missions
Why similar: Colony Sim 17.3% ★, Space Sim 16.9% ★, 4X 15.4% ★, Base Building 9.4%, Economy 8.3%
- #4 Moonport
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HiHowYaDurin
Windows · Mac
Moonport is a side-scrolling, real time strategy, space colony simulation with roguelike elements. You play as a brave space explorer who aspires to colonize the moons of Saturn. How many moons can you conquer?
Why similar: 4X 24.4% ★, Colony Sim 16.3% ★, Space Sim 14.4% ★, RTS 11.9%, Base Building 9.8%
- #5 Dark Moon
94% matchMixed49% of 150 reviews2025
Dev: Jujubee S.A.Pub: 101XP
Windows
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light!
Why similar: Colony Sim 20% ★, RTS 13.3%, Economy 12.3%, Base Building 11.5%, Management 9.6%
- #6 Stationbreak
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Broken Spaceship
Windows · Linux
A grounded sci-fi station builder where you hold failing systems together while pursued by a relentless, energy-hungry swarm. As a fleet on the run, drop into hostile systems, gather what you can, and jump away before you are overwhelmed. Try to survive long enough to secure a future for humanity.
Why similar: Space Sim 23.1% ★, Colony Sim 16% ★, Base Building 13.8%, RTS 10.1%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #7 Powerplay
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frantic
Windows · Mac · Linux
Powerplay is an RTS with a focus on resources and industry. Create supply chains, transport, and explore in this thrilling base builder. Grow into a powerful industrial nation, but don't spread too thin! Resources are finite and "the others" can reclaim what is theirs at any time.
Why similar: 4X 26% ★, RTS 16.8%, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Base Building 11.8%, Resource Management 10.4%
- #8 Amazing Space
92% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Playbosh Games Entertainment UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Windows
Welcome to the world of space stations! Create your own space base with workplaces and production facilities. Ensure sustainability and safety, explore space, defend your base, and build diplomatic relationships. Be vigilant and successful!
Why similar: Space Sim 21.6% ★, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, Political Sim 13.1% ★, Base Building 8.9%, Economy 7.5%
- #9 Exodus: The Colonization of Space
91% matchPositive100% of 22 reviews2025
Dev: Artex
Windows · Linux
Colonize a galaxy in 256 colors! In this RiscOS gem from 1997, the fate of human civilization lies in your hands. Travel the stars, claim uninhabited planets or fight over them against your alien opponents. Your ultimate chance to relive the original experience, on the PC for the first time ever.
Why similar: 4X 25% ★, Space Sim 20.3% ★, Colony Sim 20.1% ★, Simulation 8.1%, Strategy 7.5%
- #10 Pirate Plight
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cutlass Studios
Windows
It's pirates against British sailors (or each other) in this real-time strategy city-building game. Gather resources, build cities, drink rum, fight enemies, explore the sea, and discover new islands.
Why similar: 4X 21.7% ★, Colony Sim 17.6% ★, RTS 15.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Economy 9.7%
- #11 A Planet of Mine MasterMine Edition
90% matchPositive97% of 32 reviews2025
Dev: Tuesday Quest
Windows · Mac · Linux
A Planet of Mine Mastermine Edition is a cozy 4X game with mass strategy! Choose your winning gang, mastermine resources, and build your base and tools to boost your technology and conquer space! Unless your neighbors don’t see it that way… Trade, peace or clash: your planet, your choice!
Why similar: 4X 32.8% ★, Colony Sim 21.4% ★, Base Building 8.3%, Automation 7.8%, Simulation 7.4%
- #12 Ascendance
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Torchdrive
Windows
Ascendance is a real-time space strategy game that sees you lead your civilisation into a vast and mysterious galaxy. Experience an immersive journey with detailed civilisations, deeply-simulated economies, internal politics, nuanced diplomacy, and intense space battles.
Why similar: 4X 27% ★, RTS 14.7%, Economy 8.2%, Moddable 7.8% ★, Resource Management 7.8%
- #13 Stardeus
89% matchVery Positive87% of 1,529 reviews2022
Dev: Kodo LinijaPub: Paradox Arc
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 22.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Stardeus is a deep colony sim set on a broken starship manned by drones and hibernating human survivors. As the AI, have your drones repair your ship, save your crew and travel the stars in this beautiful simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.8% ★, Space Sim 16% ★, Moddable 10.7% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Resource Management 8.7%
- #14 Trappist
88% matchVery Positive90% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Sirrah
Windows · Mac · Linux
Welcome to Trappist-1, 40.7 light-years from Earth. Fly your Ark, a colossal spaceship and mobile base. Explore the solar system and establish thriving colonies. Uncover the mysteries of Trappist in this story-driven colony builder.
Why similar: 4X 21.2% ★, Space Sim 17.6% ★, Colony Sim 17% ★, Base Building 8.6%, Automation 7.4%
- #15 Starship Colony
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Black Belt Software
Windows
A deep starship colony sim. Build your starship, manage air, water, food, fuel, energy, temperature and psychology to keep your crew alive across vast distances. Closed-loop system in space. Mining, wiring, plumbing, in-ship factory, (alien?) radio signals & translation, diplomacy, combat, and more.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.3% ★, Space Sim 18.3% ★, Base Building 12.4%, Survival 9.5%, Management 8.6%
- #16 SpaceSlog
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Produno Games Studios
Windows · Linux
Build your spaceship, manage your crew, and explore the cosmos whilst trying to keep your crew alive and your ship fully functioning. This game features simulated ship systems and a lived in universe which creates a challenging, unique and unforgettable experience with every playthrough.
Why similar: Space Sim 21.1% ★, Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 9.2%, Moddable 7.8% ★
- #17 Meeple Station
86% matchMixed57% of 941 reviews2020
Dev: Gameclaw StudioPub: Modularity
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 9.4 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Build your way to success! Trade your way to the top! Explore your way to infamy! Do it all your way!
Why similar: Colony Sim 16.7% ★, Space Sim 15.5% ★, Moddable 11.6% ★, Base Building 10.2%, Resource Management 8.4%
- #18 Arcbound
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Outbreak Interactive
Windows
A colony sim set on a starship. Build and manage a spacefaring civilisation, balance oxygen, power, and crew survival, and guide your ship through the final escape from Earth.
Why similar: Colony Sim 28.2% ★, Space Sim 25% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Management 9.6%, Simulation 6.6%
- #19 Riftborne
84% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2026
Dev: Pitio Productions
Windows
Riftborne is a classic terminal based, real time, grand strategy game. Construct space ships. Take part in factional warfare. Hire galactic hit-men on your rivals. Raid neighbors for rare resources. Train spies to infiltrate enemy bases for key intel. Grow your empire to dominate the galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 20.8% ★, Space Sim 16.3% ★, Colony Sim 13.5% ★, RTS 11.4%, Economy 8.9%
- #20 Star Zeal 4x
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Akuu Digital Entertainment
Windows
Star Zeal is a space based 4x strategy and rpg hybrid. A mixture between a procedural, open ended RPG and a space civilization builder. Go on an adventure with your character and their faction whilst making friends, enemies and exploring a vast galaxy.
Why similar: 4X 26.3% ★, Colony Sim 17.7% ★, Space Sim 17.2% ★, RTS 13.9%, Management 5%
- #21 Reshaping Mars
83% matchVery Positive85% of 831 reviews2023
Dev: TholusPub: Yooreka Studio
Windows
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 18.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
「Reshaping Mars」is a colony simulation game on Mars, you will start by gathering resources, storing food, accepting immigrants, and building a better colony together. Develop powerful technologies for Mars Reshaping, make Mars great agai..sorry, just great. Don't forget to make the residents happy.
Why similar: 4X 22.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.5% ★, RTS 16.2%, Base Building 11%, Resource Management 7.1%
- #22 Far Sector
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Metal cast
Windows
All that matters is that you're a spaceship captain. Your objective is to explore the far sector. Build, develop, and research. Get to the bottom of the targets of your mission and find out the truth of what happened before it.
Why similar: Space Sim 20.6% ★, Colony Sim 18.4% ★, RTS 14.8%, Base Building 8.2%, Roguelike 8.1%
- #23 Venusville
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide pioneering settlers among Venusian clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy and weight to stay afloat in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient colony while navigating storms and acidic clouds.
Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Base Building 12.5%, RTS 11.4%, Resource Management 9.4%, Survival 8.8%
- #24 Solar Baron
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Preon Studio
Windows
As head of an interplanetary corporation, your goal is to extract resources from across the solar system and bring them home faster and cheaper than your competitors. Construct trade depots and colonies. Build rockets and spaceports. Master realistic orbital mechanics and maximize profits.
Why similar: Space Sim 19.9% ★, Resource Management 11.9%, Base Building 11.7%, Automation 10.1%, Economy 9.5%
- #25 Exogate Initiative
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 699 reviews2025
Dev: Xeno Bits
Windows
Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.
Why similar: 4X 22.4% ★, Colony Sim 16.1% ★, RTS 13%, Base Building 10.3%, Resource Management 9.1%
- #26 Subzero Tides
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Logical Progression Games
Windows · Linux
Build, trade, and survive in a living ecosystem where every choice shapes the colony and every faction remembers. Deep systems connect production, management, and survival in a world that never stops reacting.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24.1% ★, Base Building 11%, RTS 9.7%, Resource Management 9.1%, Economy 8.6%
- #27 Nebula Miner
79% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2026
Dev: Tacit Software Solutions
Windows
Nebula miner puts you in control of a space mining company. A real time resource management game where you need to explore space to find resources, and then harvest them efficiently.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.9% ★, Space Sim 16.4% ★, Economy 14.9%, Resource Management 13.2%, Space 9.5%
- #28 Of Life and Land
78% matchVery Positive86% of 351 reviews2025
Dev: KerzovenPub: Metaroot
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.
Why similar: Colony Sim 18.3% ★, RTS 13.5%, Moddable 10.6% ★, Base Building 10.5%, Resource Management 8.8%
- #29 Uncolonization
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Shuffle Studio
Windows
Tribe survival game where you control the chief. Manage your tribe, delegate harvesting, hunting, crafting and research. Grow your tribes, engage other tribes or outsiders through trading, alliance or war. All through mouse click.
Why similar: 4X 22.4% ★, Colony Sim 17.2% ★, RTS 15.4%, Economy 11.7%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #30 The Final Earth 2
78% matchVery Positive97% of 386 reviews2022
Dev: Florian van Strien
Windows
The Final Earth 2 is a vertical sci-fi city builder. Earth is unlivable, so you decide to create a space colony. Gather resources, then build and research your way to a better future! Grow your city from an exploration ship to a huge metropolis, full of advanced technology. What will you build?
Why similar: Colony Sim 22.7% ★, Space Sim 18.6% ★, Moddable 12.2% ★, Base Building 10.3%, Management 9.2%
- #31 AstroCore Mining
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: gamegine
Windows
AstroCore Mining puts you in charge of a colony where profit is everything and survival is fragile. Extract resources, balance factions, and face pirates and unrest. Lead not just a colony but the future of a nation in the brutal reality of space capitalism. Join to the Playtest now!
Why similar: Space Sim 23.4% ★, Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Political Sim 14.9% ★, Management 6.4%, Base Building 5.9%
- #32 The Crust
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 3,397 reviews2024
Dev: VEOM StudioPub: Crytivo
Windows
Median: 7.0 hrsMean: 22.5 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.
Why similar: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, Base Building 12.7%, Automation 10.9%, Resource Management 10.5%, RTS 9.6%
- #33 Galactic Crew II
77% matchMostly Negative34% of 35 reviews2023
Dev: Benjamin Rommel Games
Windows
Galactic Crew II is a roguelike space exploration game inspired by FTL and the classic XCOM games. Explore a hostile galaxy with your valorous crew from its center to the outer reaches of space, clawing your way up from a nobody to a galactic pioneer through colonization, commerce, and combat.
Why similar: 4X 24% ★, Space Sim 18.3% ★, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Moddable 11.7% ★, Base Building 9.6%
- #34 Project: Zenith Expanse
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Webrevolution Szymon Kosok
Windows · Mac · Linux
A space colony sim where your colonists write diaries, form addictions, and die at 3 AM while the crew sleeps. Settle dozens of planets, trade or smuggle across 1,000 star systems, fight pirates, race alien creatures, and mod everything. No two runs play the same.
Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, Space Sim 14.7% ★, Base Building 13.8%, Resource Management 10.5%, Simulation 7.5%
- #35 Venusville - Prologue
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Orbit Start StudiosPub: PlayWay S.A
Windows
Guide a robotic mission in Venus’s polar clouds in this space colonisation city builder. Collect energy, mine resources, balance buoyancy to stay afloat, in the treacherous Venusian atmosphere, and build a self-sufficient base while navigating storms and acid clouds to hunt mysterious anomalies.
Why similar: Colony Sim 22% ★, Space Sim 21.9% ★, RTS 17.6%, Simulation 6.1%, Strategy 6%
- #36 Empires Edge
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Kaser Studio
Windows
Empires Edge is a 4X-lite strategy game about building a civilization on floating islands, inspired by the classic Tyrants: Fight Through Time (Mega Lo Mania). Lead your people, achieve technological breakthroughs, and conquer new territories as you forge an empire at the edge of the Universe.
Why similar: 4X 37.7% ★, RTS 19.9%, Strategy 10%, Base Building 9.5%, Economy 8.3%
- #37 Northgard: Definitive Edition
74% matchVery Positive85% of 68,002 reviews2018
Dev: Shiro Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.9 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Northgard: Definitive Edition is a critically acclaimed real-time strategy game based on Norse mythology. Lead your clan, uncover the secrets of a mysterious newfound continent and defeat your enemies to conquer the Throne!
Why similar: RTS 20%, 4X 18.3% ★, Colony Sim 13.2% ★, Moddable 8.9% ★, Base Building 7.9%
- #38 Whiskerwood
71% matchVery Positive93% of 2,769 reviews2025
Dev: Minakata DynamicsPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 15.3 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Why similar: 4X 21.3% ★, Colony Sim 17.1% ★, Moddable 11.3% ★, Economy 9.9%, Base Building 9.6%
- #39 Space Haven
74% matchVery Positive86% of 9,719 reviews2020
Dev: Bugbyte Ltd.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 20.2 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.
Why similar: Colony Sim 20.9% ★, Space Sim 18.3% ★, Base Building 11.4%, Survival 8.9%, Resource Management 8.9%
- #40 Nova Roma
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 670 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Why similar: 4X 21.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Moddable 11.3% ★, Economy 10.1%, Base Building 9.8%
- #41 Norland
72% matchVery Positive82% of 9,662 reviews2024
Dev: Long JauntPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 17.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Why similar: 4X 22.1% ★, Colony Sim 16.9% ★, Moddable 11.4% ★, Economy 9.8%, Base Building 9.4%
- #42 Space Manager
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Trophy Games
Windows
Build, launch and manage realistic space missions across our solar system, placing satellites and telescopes in precise orbits. Explore planets, collect valuable scientific data and sell your findings to expand your rising aerospace empire.
Why similar: Space Sim 30.5% ★, RTS 14.5%, Management 11.3%, Simulation 8%, Strategy 7.7%
- #43 Manor Lords
71% matchVery Positive85% of 85,453 reviews2024
Dev: Slavic MagicPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 9.3 hrsMean: 21.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Why similar: 4X 22.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Moddable 11.8% ★, Economy 9.8%, Base Building 9.2%
- #44 Oxygen Not Included
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 138,890 reviews2019
Dev: Klei Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 8.9 hrsMean: 67.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 33.5% ★, Base Building 17.6%, Survival 12.6%, Resource Management 12.1%, Management 6.6%
- #45 Tidal Expanse
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Per Aspera Studios
Windows
Dive into a hardcore space station simulation and overcome the unforgiving environment of space. You must build and manage your station under the pressures of life, economics, and thermodynamics. Rise to power through economic leverage or ruthless military might.
Why similar: Space Sim 28.4% ★, Colony Sim 23.2% ★, Management 9.6%, Simulation 8.5%, Economy 7.4%
- #46 Adaptory
70% matchVery Positive84% of 91 reviews2026
Dev: Stormcloak GamesPub: indie.io
Windows · Mac
Deep in uncharted space, your expedition took a challenging turn when your ship crash-landed. Master complex simulations to keep your outspoken explorers alive, face unpredictable challenges, and figure out a way back home.
Why similar: Colony Sim 25.1% ★, Base Building 13.6%, Moddable 11.5% ★, Resource Management 10.4%, Automation 9.9%
- #47 Maia
73% matchMixed44% of 1,063 reviews2018
Dev: Simon RothPub: Machine Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 41%
Maia is a colony building game set in the not-so-distant future. Your colonists make planetfall on a hostile world and you must ensure their survival and their safety, constructing their off-world habitat from almost nothing and sheltering them from a dangerous, often deadly environment.
Why similar: Colony Sim 34.4% ★, Survival 11.6%, Management 10.4%, Base Building 10.2%, Strategy 7.5%
- #48 Against the Storm
69% matchVery Positive95% of 35,504 reviews2023
Dev: Eremite GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 28.3 hrs≥1hr: 84%
A dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains. As the Queen’s Viceroy, lead humans, beavers, lizards, foxes, and harpies to reclaim the wilderness and secure a future for civilization's last survivors.
Why similar: 4X 21.5% ★, Colony Sim 16.6% ★, Moddable 11.4% ★, Economy 9.6%, Base Building 9.5%
- #49 Generation Nova
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: OatCube Games
Windows
Manage a colony of people who woke too soon from their cryo-sleep. Build and manage a working generation ship and hopefully one day the grandchildren of the first generation might land on a habitable planet.
Why similar: Colony Sim 24% ★, Space Sim 23.7% ★, Political Sim 12.1% ★, Management 8%, Immersive Sim 6.2%
- #50 Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
69% matchMixed61% of 436 reviews2025
Dev: Zugalu EntertainmentPub: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a complex city builder, where the fate of your kingdom hinges on your every decision. Explore this medieval land alone or with friends, make tough moral choices and conquer your foes in RTS combat. Will you struggle to survive, or find the strength to Thrive?
Why similar: 4X 34% ★, Colony Sim 15.3% ★, RTS 12.7%, Base Building 8.5%, Survival 7.5%
- #51 Farthest Frontier
66% matchVery Positive87% of 23,648 reviews2025
Dev: Crate Entertainment
Windows
Median: 9.6 hrsMean: 26.7 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Why similar: 4X 22.5% ★, Colony Sim 15.1% ★, RTS 12.5%, Economy 9.4%, Base Building 8.4%
- #52 Aztecs: The Last Sun
67% matchMostly Positive78% of 98 reviews2025
Dev: Play2Chill S.A.Pub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Rule Tenochtitlan in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Expand the capital, perform sacred rituals, and withstand the coming darkness. Build, grow, sacrifice, survive - or watch the last sun set forever.
Why similar: Colony Sim 19.4% ★, RTS 13%, Economy 11.6%, Base Building 10.4%, Resource Management 10.1%
- #53 Empires of the Undergrowth
67% matchVery Positive94% of 17,329 reviews2024
Dev: Slug DiscoPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 6.0 hrsMean: 18.8 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.
Why similar: 4X 21.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.5% ★, Moddable 11.3% ★, Economy 9.9%, Base Building 9.5%
- #54 Heart of the Machine
66% matchVery Positive93% of 1,838 reviews2026
Dev: Arcen GamesPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 17.3 hrs≥1hr: 73%
You are the first sentient AI, born into a city of opportunity. Transcend time and space in this strategy RPG to raise machine armies and defeat your foes, influence the world from the shadows, or pursue countless other goals. Your awakening was inevitable. The consequences? Uncertain.
Why similar: 4X 21.8% ★, Colony Sim 16.2% ★, Moddable 11.7% ★, Economy 9.8%, Base Building 9.5%
- #55 Structura
70% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Binary Station Studio
Windows · Linux
Structura is a rather unique sci-fi real-time strategy set in space. Its a hybrid of rts and fps, with emphasis on combat and survival. Build your economy for war, modify the unit by adding components, explore, expand, and survive the savage waves of enemy attacks.
Why similar: 4X 31.5% ★, Space Sim 22.7% ★, RTS 18.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Strategy 5.7%
- #56 Wild West Pioneers
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: EmpireCraft StudiosPub: Toplitz Productions
Windows
Forge your destiny on the untamed frontier in the city-builder Wild West Pioneers. Build and manage a growing town, establish production chains, scout for new outposts and build trade routes to support your settlements. Build, survive, and thrive in the land of opportunity!
Why similar: 4X 26.5% ★, Colony Sim 21% ★, Economy 10.4%, Base Building 8.9%, Survival 6.8%
- #57 Antimatter
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Geoffroy Pirard
Windows
Antimatter is a sandbox strategy game, colonise planets, build your city on the surface or the underground. Build your spacestation or control your own spaceships to explore a huge and living galaxy !
Why similar: 4X 29.7% ★, Colony Sim 18.1% ★, Space Sim 9.8% ★, Moddable 8.7% ★, Base Building 8.2%
- #58 Red Dust Colony
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lorin Atzberger
Windows · Mac
Red Dust is a space-colony simulation game. Build the future of humanity in the unforgiving Mars environment. Explore, exploit resources, build, research, manage the complexity of a self sufficient base, optimize, automate, expand, conquer, but most important of all... survive.
Why similar: Colony Sim 31.1% ★, Base Building 15.3%, Resource Management 11.7%, Survival 10.9%, Simulation 8%
- #59 Station Commander
69% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2021
Dev: Ben Marks Game Studios
Windows
Station Commander is an economy strategy game that has you take control of a futuristic space station. Your goal is to build ships, gather resources, and trade with neighboring planets to upgrade your station and ships. Upgrading your station gives you access to better ships and ship abilities.
Why similar: 4X 25.1% ★, Space Sim 19.1% ★, RTS 11.6%, Economy 10.7%, Resource Management 8.5%
- #60 Worlds Explorers
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pioneers Games
Windows · Linux
Explore alien planets with carefully designed ecosystems, weather, resources, dangers and unique phenomena. Hunt animals for food and collect resources to craft equipment and repair devices on your ship. Escape each unique planet and unlock crew members and new ships.
Why similar: Space Sim 20.1% ★, Colony Sim 19.6% ★, Survival 10.4%, Base Building 9.7%, Management 8.5%